with three elevated ridges, and thence triangular, twisted, cohering 
with the ovary, limb superior, five-parted, segments obtuse, spreading 
or reflected. Tube of the corolla very short, limb of five unequal 
spreading segments, whereof two from the upper lip, ovate, acute, en¬ 
tirely blue, three, constituting the under lip, are broader, obovate and 
acuminate, the central one longer than the lateral ones, rich blue 
towards the margin, but of a pure white from the middle downwards, 
save where a yellow two-lobed spot occupies the base. Stamens five, 
both filaments and anthers united into a monadelphous tube around 
the pistillum, two of the anthers bristle-pointed. Ovary inferior, one- 
celled; style inclosed in the tube of the stamens, stigma conical, pro¬ 
truding beyond it, surrounded by a papillose beard. Capsule 
triangular, one-celled, three-valved, valves narrow, cohering at either 
extremity. Seeds minute, numerous, brown, smooth. 
Popular and Geographical Notice. The genus Clintonia 
consists as yet of two species only; Clintonia elegans and Clintonia 
pulchella, natives of North West America, the former in the more 
northern part, on the plains of the Columbia River, the latter in the 
more southern, viz. in California, where 
‘ Flowers fresh in hue, and many in their elass 
Implore the jjausing step—’ 
Neither species is applied to any direct use, but if they serve no 
other purpose than that of pleasing the eye, and gladdening the heart, 
they were not formed in vain. 
Our outward life requires them not— 
Then wherefore had they birth ? 
To minister delight to man, 
To beautify the earth ; 
To comfort man—to whisper hope, 
Whene’er his faith is dim ! 
For who so careth for the flowers. 
Will much more care for him. 
Marv Howitt. 
Introduction ; Where grown ; Culture. Seeds were sent in 
1831, by Douglas to the Horticultural Society, in whose garden the 
specimen flowered in 1839, from which our drawing was made. It 
grows in a pot, but is of rather difiicult culture. In the borders its 
soil should be light and rich, where it will ripen a few seeds. 
Derivation of the Names. 
Clintonia, a well-merited compliment to De Witt Clinton, formerly Governor 
of the State of New York, and a writer on various branches of Natural His¬ 
tory. Pulchella, from pulcher, pretty. 
Synonymes. 
Clintonia pulchella. Lindley; in Botanical Register, t. 1909. 
